Apparatus for games.



G. A. DROSTE.

APPARATUS FOR GAMES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1911.

1 039 500 Patented Sept. 24., 1912.

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G. A. DROSTE.

APPARATUS FOR GAMES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18. 1911.

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APPARATUS FOR GAMES.

Specification of team Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

Application filed July 18, 1911. Serial 110. 639,095.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. DROSTE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of lVashington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus forGames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparatus for playin games and has for anobject to provide aImard having representations. of field sport groundsmarked thereon, and with a dial or drum adapted to indicate by chancethe play or move to be made upon the board.

A further object of the invention is to provide a board having markingsthereon to indicate a game field with a drum rotatably mounted having aplurality of markings thereon which indicate by the position of the drumrelative to an indicator the move or moves to be made, if any, upon theboard.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certainnovel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as will behereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of a thereon foruse with a board depicting fields of more than one sport. Fig. 2 is aview of a drum with only one sport indicated thereon, as base ball. Fig.3 is a View of a drum with a single sport indicated thereon, as football. Fig. 4 is a plan View of a game board for use in association withthe -drums shown at Figs. 1 to 3, being conventionally marked toindicate a foot ball field. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a board or thereverse of the same board, showing markings thereon to indicate a baseball field.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

As shown at Figs. 4 and 5, a board is employed having markings thereonto indicate the markings of a game field, as for instance at Fig. 4 aboard is shown marked to indicate a foot ball field, while at Fig. 5 abase ball field is shown. In the present invention no novelty is claimedfor the drum having markings marking appearing upon the'boards as thesame are marked simply to represent conventional fields. The moves uponthe fields, as represented by Figs. 4 or 5, may be made either by.markers which will plug into holes, as 10, or disks to be placed uponcertain positions as indicated at 11 in Fig. 5.

Preferably the two boards, as indicated at Figs. 4 and 5 are formed uponopposite sides of the same structure, although such formation isimmaterial to the present invention. For use with the board or boards,as for instance to play a game upon the board represented at Fig. 5, adrum 12 is employed, as shown at Fig. 2. This drum is provided withcircumferential lines 13 and also longitudinal lines 14 by which thesurface of the drum is divided into a largenumber of squares orrectangular spaces. W'ithin these rectangular spaces are written orprinted certain designations of the game of base ball, as indicatedat15. Along the side between the frame pieces 16 which support the drum, astrip 18 is employed having a plurality of lines 19 registering with thecircumferential lines 13 of the drum, dividing such strip into a.plurality of columns in which columns are printed .terms to indicatethe plays, as shown at 20., The frame 16 is supported upon a base 21 andwinged nuts 22 are secured upon the axle of the drum by which such drumis rotated. A means shown conventionallyat 23 is also employed forincreasing the tension upon the rotating drum to bring it to a stopsooner if desired, such means being simply a lever pivoted at 24 and bypressing down upon the extension 25 pressure is exerted upon the thumbnut against which it engages. A pointer 27 is also employed whichindicates the line to be read when the game is being played. The pointer27 indicates a longitudinal line or column upon the cylinder which isread from left to right or otherwise as may be desired and thedirections con tained Within the rectangles of such column formed by thecircumferential lines will be the directions for the several moves ofthe game being played. The pointer 27 might point to a ongitudinalcolumn which would contain only one word or a direction for the movementof one piece or it might contain directions in each of said squaresj sothat each piece upon the board will be moved base Safe.

wise lines which form columns to receive desa in accordance with thedirections contained in such column.

As shown at Figs. 1 and 2, the strip 18 contains directions which areread in conjunction with those contained in the longitudinal column. Itwill be noted that the strip 18 contains designations for the batter andfor each of the bases, also the designations Fly ball, Steal, Doubleplay, Throw out, and Home steal. There is no intention to control inthis way the movement of the-men at the bases except as it is indicatedby the conjunction of the base designation upon the strip 18 and thedesignation upon the cylinder. As shown at Figs. 1 and 2, thedesignation to be read is under Batter Hit and under First This would sofar control the action of the men on bases as would permit the batterwho makes the hit to reach first base but he would get no farther thanfirst base because there is no permission for him to reach other bases.If we sup ose that the word Safe was transpose to the column under Homethen it would mean a home run and the action of the men on bases wouldbe such as to permit the runner to pass all of the bases and reach home.

Under the designations Fly ball if under Batter We read Hit and underFly ball, Out then we will assume that the Fly ball is captured by someone on the bases or in the field. It is not necessary to know whocaptures the ball so long as the ball is caught, thereby registering oneout.

Under Steal if the designation is Out I it indicates that a man on abase has attempted to steal a base and been put out. The otherdesignations will be perfectly apparent from the foregoing. If on thefirst play the man at bat reaches first base safely and on the secondplay the same should again occur, it would of course necessitate the manon first taking second. If the designation Out should happen to be undersecond then the man taking second would be out on second. If thedesignation Out appeared under third the same would be true. If the wordSafe appears under either of these bases or under Home it would indicatethat the first man reaches these bases safelyv while the second manreaches first base.

For playing the game of foot ball a similar drum 28 is employedsimilarly mounted upon a frame 29 and rotated by winged nuts 80. Thedrum 28 is likewise divided by a plurality of circumferential lines 31and longitudinal lines 32 to produce similar square or rectangularspaces upon the surface of the drum which are employed for receivingprinting or writing to designate the moves of the game. A strip 33similar to the strip 18 is also employed having likeignations ofthe'play, as indicated at 34, but a slide 35 is preferably mounted uponthe strip 33 provided with a pointer 36 which indicates any one of theseveral columns 3a.

The drum shown at Fig. 3 and the right hand end of the drum, as shown atFig. 1, being employed for playing a foot ball game the bointer 36 isemployed to designate which play is to be made before the drum is spunto indicate the chance feature of such member. Such pointer is moved toindicate the plays as they occur in the regular play of the foot ballgame and the chance device is used to indicate what is the outcome ofsuch play.

Instead of making the drums for the two games separate, it is founddesirable to combine them upon the same drum as shown at 37, in whichcase the designations for one game are at one end of the drum whilethose for the other game are at the other end of the drum and reversedrelative to each other. As shown at Fig. 1, the end of the drum at theleft is arranged with designations for playing the base ball game and asshown the designations are right side up, while at the right hand end ofthe drum designations are employed for playing the foot ball game andthe designations as seen are up side down. To employ this drum 37 forplaying the foot ball game it is turned around and the opposite sidewill then show the foot ball characters in normal position and the baseball characters up side down.

\Vhatever the make of the drum and its mounting, the games are played byspinning the drum by engaging the winged nuts and when the drum comes torest to read from the line indicated by the pointer, the play which isto be made upon either of the fields being then employed. The play, asdesignated by the line upon the drum, is then made upon the board by theplayer representing that particular side. Then the drum is spun by theplayer representing the other side and his play made in accordance withthe designation appearing upon the drum.

I claim 1. The combination with a board marked to indicate a game field,of a drum having a stationary member indicatin acts which are to be donein the playing 0% the game, and a cylinder mounted to rotate adjacentsuch strip and provided with colunms read in conjunction with thedesignations upon such strip indicating how such acts are to beperformed and the outcome of such acts.

2. The combination with a board having markings thereon to indicate agame field, of a strip carrying designations of acts to be performedupon such field, and a drum mounted to rotate adjacent such strip and'having spaces corresponding to the desiglongitudinal columns of thedrum which when read in conjunction with the indications upon the stripform directions as to 15 how such acts are to be performed and theoutcome of such acts.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. DROSTE Witnesses:

G. WARD KEMP, W. B, NEIGHBORS.

